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Now here’s a blast from the past: the article (my first publication!) and code for “Supercataloger 128″, a program I wrote for the Commodore 128 to keep a catalog of the content of your floppy disks, which I submitted to COMPUTE!’s Gazette . They accepted it, but at a whopping 282 lines of code (plus [...]

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I have made a new release of grabcartoons, my comic-summarizing utility. This release includes some new abilities for modules, improvements in the structure of the output, and some bug fixes.

Technorati Tags: comics, grabcartoons, software

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A few people have let me know that CopperExport does not work with iPhoto 7. As soon as I can get my hands on iLife’08, I will work on fixing the problem (unfortunately, I don’t have definite plans of ordering it at the moment, so it may take a bit).
On a related note, Apple has [...]

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In setting up Ruby and Ruby on Rails in my (aging) 1GHz PowerBook, I decided to use Dan Benjamin’s excellent instructions, but I deviated from them in a few places to reduce compilation time and to fix some other problems, so I thought I’d document what I did in case it helps anyone else. So [...]

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I have been wanting to learn [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/), and
I recently started playing with [FUSE](http://fuse.sourceforge.net/), for
creating file systems in user space in Unix.
And a couple of days ago, [Marcel](http://marcel-g.homeip.net/) asks
me if I knew of any blogging client that would allow complete offline
editing of the posts as files, and then synchronize them. That was
enough to plant the seed [...]

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I was trying to fix the Emacs Template Toolkit mode file so that it correctly highlights multi-line directives. I could not find how to tell Emacs to make “.” match also a newline, but I found that the negative clause [^...] will match anything that is not specified, including newlines. So by using it with [...]

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This had been bothering me for a while. Due mostly to artifacts in synchronizing with my PalmOS device, a large number of duplicates had accumulated in my Evolution addressbook. Today I put together this short script to eliminate them. It’s crude, but it sort of works.
Standard disclaimer applies: use at your own risk, backup your [...]

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BoliMonitor is a very simple MacOS X program I wrote when the due date for our daughter was approaching, for my wife to keep track of contraction durations and intervals. In the end, the program went unused because our daughter was born through a medically-indicated C-section, but it’s functional, so here it is.
Just press the [...]

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XML processing in Python is somewhat confusing, mostly because, as in most other languages, it’s still very much in a state of flux. The PyXML library is now part of the standard Python distribution, but it seems to include components from different sources. Another library, 4suite, seems to improve on some aspects, particularly in XPath [...]

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